To:A. O. ALSKY

Published:First published in 1965 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 52.

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      Moscow,Volume 45,

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ComradeAlsky:

Idraw your attention to this report, which has been
submitted to me by a comrade from the All-Russia
Extraordinary Commission, who had been specially authorised by
me, in agreement with Comrade Dzerzhinsky, I appointed the
inquiry which has produced this report after a
communication I had had from the most reliable Communists that
things were not quite well at
Gokhran.[1]

ComradeBokii’s communication fully confirms this.

Idraw your most serious attention to this fact.

You,above all, and thenallthe members of the
Collegium of the People’s Commissariat for Finance, and
Comrade Basha especially, must devote ten times more work to
Gokhran. Unless things are reorganised at Gokhran within
the shortest period in such a way asabsolutely to excludethe possibility of stealing, while at the same time
accelerating all the work and enlarging its scale, the Deputy
People’s Commissar andallthe members of the Collegium
of the People’s Commissariat for Finance will be faced
not only with Party, but also with criminal charges.

Becauseof the delay in the Gokhran work (it is harder
to work in winter anda great dealhas to be done before
it sets in), and because of the stealing there, the Republic
is sufferingvastlosses, for precisely at this time, in these
hard days, we must obtain themaximumof valuablesquicklyfor commodity exchange with foreign countries.

Itis necessary:

1)toorganise regular and frequent conferences with
Bokii for the earliest reorganisation of Gokhran;

2)tobring the protection and surveillance to perfection
(special railings, wooden partitions; lockers or partitions
for changing; surprise searches; systems of double and
triple surprise check-ups in accordance with all the rules
of the art ofcriminal investigation, etc., etc.);

3)torecruit, in case of necessity, dozens andhundredsof responsible and absolutely honest Communists in Moscowto participate (say, once a month or two months) in
surprise, day andnight, audits. The staffsand the inspectorsmust be given instructions in theminutest detail;

4)itshall be the duty ofeverymember of the P.C.F.
Collegium, without exception, to conduct inperson, at least
once a month, day and night surprise inspections of
Gokhran, at the work places and wherever else stealing may
occur. The Deputy People’s Commissar shall keep a
personal secret register of these inspections.

Inview of thesecretcharacter of this paper, I request
you toreturnit to me at once, and to have all the members
of the P.C.F. Collegium signitin person.

29/VV. Ulyanov (Lenin)Chairman, C.P.C.

(P.S.If Chutskayev is still here, let him read it as well:
he bears a considerable part of the blame!)

[1]SeeNotes 155 and 156.